Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-08-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| aged suicides lately.
Paterson, New Jersey. has a fe-
male ghost or sensation.
The pawnbroker is now laying in
his summer stock Of winter clothing.
Jersey City has an accumulation
of unpaid taxes amounting to $1,000.
| 90.
An eighty thousand dollar opera
| house has been contracted for at Pasa-
dena, California.
| -Genee has written a new opera,
Thirteen" which will be produced at
| Vienna in the fall.
Six bridgeport, (Conn.) octogen-
| arians INDUCED in in an excursion to
New York the other day.
A surplus of cats is said TO be
worrying Mtxs5olly, New Jersey, and
the cats are worried IN turn.
In upper New Jersey the farmers
nave been moving hay by moonlight to
escape the intense heat or the day.
| Twenty-Five OF the crew are said
TO have deserted from the United
states sioop-of-war Ossippee, at Boston.
| The remains of gigantic Indians
and several arrow-heads were recently
| exhumed at East Neck, Long Island.
"A Georgian is reported 10 have
shipped over 500 crates of pears, the
produce OF only two acres OF ground.
"A granite tower, 60 feet high, has
| been been adopted as the design of the
Portland (Maine) soldiers "mOnu-
ment.''
Not one OF twenty-six "tramps"
arrested In one night one week III Cent
| da-
Years OF age.
Salem, New Jersey, has newly
| competed school census that shows a
| decrease in the number of children OF
| school age.
1t is thought industrial education
| viii be tried experimentally in New
! ork public schools during the coming
| school term,
In i number OF localities along the
Hudson uver Concord grape growers
| report that phyloxera are gnawIng at
The roots of the grape vine.
| "A new use for the tobacco plant
Las been discovered. Its stems and
waste, 1t is claimed, are equal TO linen
rags in the manufacture OF paper.
Some of the New Bedford CMass.)
whalers have been having splendid luck
this season. Two schooners have taken
$4,000 worth each of ambergris.
The new College de France which
las been started in Paris, VIII require
scarcely less than six years for its
completion, it is stated, and will cost
100000 francs.
IF every horse whose mouth is
sIcIousiy sawed and yanked by an ugly
mouth MOUTH fnners fners kMlSSE kMlSSErd dTp
justice In the world.
"A colOred woman put S94 In Bal
timore savings bank IN 1887, and
when 1t was drawn out by her de-
sceGdents the other day 1t had IN
creased to a little over $4,000.
In Natchez, Mississippi, during q
recent fortnight, only six deaths Oc-
curred-but one of them that of a
white person, and one was from inju-
lies received. The population IS about
10000.
: "A tramp succeeded in making an
upholstered pew in st. Peters Church,
New York, his bed every night for two
weeks before he was caught at il. He
is now on Blackwell's Island for the
summer.
American school books which here
tofore found ready sale IN Japan, are
being crowded from the market by
clever reprints produced by the native
workmen, according 10 adYices received
III Washington.
The hottest day san Francisco ex-
perienced since the Signal Service was
, established there was on May %. when
the temperature rose To 500. The
hottest day before that WAS IN lST3,
; when JJ.3 was reached.
"A horse owner of Brooklyn, whose
horse was so badly injured by catching
! one of its feet III Il cable road slot that
l killing became necessary to end the
/ animals sufferingS, has recovered 500
from the cable road company.
. AT Santa Cruz, California, lately,
two large Newfoundland dogs annoyed
I children in bathing by continually
: dragging them from the water, evi-
= IDENTIFY under the impression that the
1 youngsters were drowning.
: "A gamIn in New York, who was
cut with whip 10y the driver while
catching behiud'' a loaded furniture
car, waited his opportunity and cut the
e rope that bound the load, permitting a
portion of the latter to drop into the
: street.
/, Coins (of what country it is not
!. stately OF the date of 1896 and other
= years prior to 1900, were found last
. week by Il man who was digging a
= cellar in Andover, New Jersey. The
coins are said To be OF copper and IN
: good condition.
p -ltepoTUs ron uTeenpOT1, Long IS
n land, Promised Land aud other places
} | of rendezvous for vessels engaged I'm the
y menhaden fisheries are TO the effect that
!. the catch this season so far IS much be-
y low the average. and comparatively the
). business is failure.
Arrangements have been made for
& scientific examination OF the water Of
the Passaic and its tributaries. Sam
pies of the water taken recently from
the river below Paterson, New Jersey,
d. showed $4,000 microbes in about a
q quarter of a teaspoontul of water.
a, "A ''shinplaster'' issued by Ale
ct gheny, Penna., when it was borough,
h fifty years ago, and which had been
b continuously in possession of 7. b.
t. Watford, of this city, since that time,
ID has been given by the latter to James
se Lowrie, of Pittsburg. The note is OF
rs the denomination of y: cents and was
IS to bear one per cent. interest until re-
5 deemed.
re "A butcher in Pennington, New
3: Jersey, owns dog whose barking al
h' night disturbed the guests at a hotel,
Ell the proprietor of which got out an in
y. junction against the butcher. After
es vainly trying for a couple of nights Il
x. make the dog respect the injunction,
I'd the butcher has sent the animal away
10 for the summer.
Oh "A brick that is said to have fallen
LII 800 feet from the top of a shaft In the
IL great aqueduct in the course OF con
structiOn in New York, struck Savors
Siddalia, who was at the bottom, on the
pc head, and though it fractured his skull